Overview
A Clear and Provocative Introduction to Renaissance Music
Allan Atlas’s enthusiasm and energy infuse every sentence of the text. He covers abstruse concepts such as isorhythm and hexacords in a language that is easy to understand. In the course of covering all aspects of the music, he raises many questions for students to consider. Some of them are answered immediately in the text; others have no reliable answers, but are important for stimulating and challenging the student. At every turn, he encourages students to become actively engaged in the material they read by placing them in the context of the Renaissance.
Sensible Organization
Renaissance Music boasts a chronological organization with six parts that cover overlapping chunks of 30 to 40 years. Most chapters are devoted to musical genres. Others center on specific countries or geographical areas, patronage, music theory, music printing, or on other categories suggested by the material. Atlas incorporates the latest scholarship in the field, and always ensures that this material is easily understood by his student readers.
Unique In-text Pedagogy
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- Editing A Chanson
- Learning From Documents
- Quotations from Texts
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